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The tomb of railroad magnate and stock manipulator Jay Gould is one of the best protected of the grand mausoleums of Woodlawn Cemetery. When he died in 1892, Gould had is coffin sealed in lead and made sure his family tomb was safe from intrud
The tiny cemetery on St. James Place in Manhattan's Chinatown is the oldest Jewish cemetery in the United States. 18 Jewish veterans of the Revolutionary War are buried here.
A carillon is a set of tuned bells played from a special keyboard high up in a tower. The bell tower of Riverside church is 22 stories high, and when Kelly Choi paid a visit, you could hear the bells ringing ten blocks away!
Just a few hundred steps from the skyscrapers of Fifth Avenue is a tiny nature preserve few New Yorkers know about. Four million people visit Central Park every year, but almost none of them have seen the secrets of Hallett Sanctuary.
Built in 1893, the old Harlem Courthouse still functions as a justice center with an interior from Manhattan's Gilded Age. Kelly Choi discovers a hidden passageway that leads to the oldest district prison still standing in the City of New York.
In front of a quiet Church on Riverside Drive stands the bronze figure of the 12th Century monk who founded Shin Buddhism. But the statue itself survived the world’s first atomic bomb. Kelly Choi explores its story.
A tall red brick building on East Fourth Street is the only house in New York City that remains intact from 1832, both inside and out. Kelly Choi discovers a special secret way up in the attic.
Between Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a group of old houses remain from one of the first free African American communities in America. Kelly Choi visits a cultural jewel from the 1830’s.
This train terminal is filled with secrets, but there’s one that over 750,000 people pass every day that’s worth ten to twenty million dollars. Let Kelly Choi show you where it is.
On the northern edge of Central Park, there’s a small fort left over from a war that New Yorkers never had to fight. Find out who might have invaded the City with Kelly Choi.
Secrets turn up in the strangest places in New York City, like the Wyckoff farm house, built in 1652.
Why would a church on East 29th Street have stained glass windows of Broadway actors?
Before Radio and phonograph there was sheet music and pianos, lots of pianos, with aggressive song pluggers pounding out the next big hit for the music publishers along west 28th Street. They made such a racket, it sounded like a hundred people
Kelly ventures to mysterious islands around New York to unearth the secrets that lie hidden in their past. On Hart Island, she meets with experts who enrich our understanding of the site’s rich history.
New Yorkers have passed by a wide open space for 65 years riding the J train past Essex Street on the lower East side, wondering what that acre of underground space might have been. Kelly clears up the mystery by visiting New York City’s most f
In the mid 1800s New York was a dangerous, chaotic city teaming with newly arrived immigrants. Ruthless crooks and brutal criminal gangs ruled the lawless streets. Kelly maps the emergence of the police force that took on these cutthroat thieve
As New Yorkers go about their daily business, few realize that a whole other world lies just beneath their feet. Deep underdeath New York City is a mysterious world of pipes and passageways. From abandoned train stations to water valves the siz
How did New York City once end up with two police forces that spent more time battling each other than fighting crime? And how did the City's biggest mafia don help win World War II from his jail cell? Kelly gets to the bottom of these gritty
From the American Revolution to World War II, New York City has experienced its share of war. Kelly reveals that New York had its own Tea Party, just like Boston, back when we were still a British colony and uncovers the truth about the infamou
Kelly introduces viewers to the history of New York City's theatre district as she explores the ghosts who seem to make regular appearances in the dressing rooms and backstages of Broadway, tours the secret apartments that exist above many of B
Few places in the world possess a history as rich, colorful or dramatic as that of New York City. Scattered throughout the city are unnoticed vestiges from a previous time that mark a path to the city's illustrious past. Travel back in time to
Throughout history, New York City has always been ahead of the game. Discover many of the everyday things we take for granted today that were invented, or first put into use and made famous in New York City.
Take in never before seen views of New York City. Join host Kelly Choi as she climbs, crawls and sails to bring you Vista City.
Kelly Choi explores the South Street Seaport and climbs aboard the tall ships that made New York an international trade center. We see the city’s earliest hotel rooms, meet sea pirates like Captain Kidd who made Manhattan their home, and search
When Congress made liquor illegal in 1920, ordinary citizens who just wanted a drink had to become criminals to get one. The law intended to shut down legal drinking establishments produced a doubling in the number of underground world speakeas
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